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Myasthenia gravis and myotonic dystrophy in a 13-year-old girl

G. Milton Shy Award Essay, 1976

H. Houston Merritt Clinical Research Center for Muscular Dystrophy and Related Diseases, Department of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University and the Neurological Institute of the Presbyterian Hospital, New York.

A 13-year-old girl demonstrated clinical, pharmacologic, and electromyographic evidence of myasthenia gravis, as well as clinical, electromyographic, and genetic evidence of myotonic dystrophy. Although myotonic dystrophy was documented in the family, no other family members were found to have myasthenia gravis.

Dr. Schoen's present address is Yale-New Haven Medical Center, 789 Howard Ave., New Haven, CT 06510.

This study was supported by Center grants from the Muscular Dystrophy Association and the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Diseases and Stroke (NS 11766).

Received for publication June 1976.

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